Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-13
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W. H. CromptOn will support Miss Mary
Hamilton in her new play, IAN Actors
Daughter"
One thousand seven hundred English
clergymen visited the Lyceum Theatre,
London, last year.
Dixey viii be banqueted in Chicago
March 81 on the occasion of the 1,OOOth
performance Of "Adonis."
Rhea has given up the idea of doing the
great farewell act, and will star in this
country again next season.
Marcus Mayer denies that he is going to
marry Miss FOrteScue, and says, II wish
hsr better luck than that"
James O'Neill will next season play in
Hamlet" 'COrsican Brothers." "Mer-
ChBnt of Venice and "Richelieu."
Edwin Booths and Robson and Cranes
engagements in the South were the great
est ever known in that section.
In a new play burlesquing the Polaris
Arctic expedition, one of the characters is
a representative OF the New York Herald.
Helen Dauvray's new play, "Walda
Lamar" brought Out Mt the Lyceum,
New York, this week, depicts theatrical
life in Paris in 1870.
Minnie Hauk is making n tour through
Belgium and Holland. She is singing in
Carmen" "Manon," ''Lohengrin" and
"L'Africdne."
Mrs. Rachael McAuley, widow of the
late Barney McAhley, has been engaged by
the management of the Booth Barrett
continuation for next season.
Tamagne, the leading tenor in Verdi's
'OthellO," gets 500 n night; Maurcl, the
baritone, gets 5000, and Nine. Pantaleoni,
the Ideal ~desdemoad, gets only 800.
J. X. Emmet's Fritz" is drawing so
well in Few York that he has cancelled
all his out of town dates and settled down
to a fine business AT the Standard Theatre.
Mr. George II. Murray, the well known
theatrical agent, now representing W. J.
Gilmore, was married on February 3 to
Miss Viola Carnes, a nOn-professional.
Among the travesties of Eastern customs
introduced in Nat Goodwin'sn new play will
be -Four O'clock Tea," and "Sorosiy."
Nat will appear as a wild Western Indian.
w. s.. Henderson, the librettist of
Lorraine" now being produced by the
McCaull Opera Company, at the Star Thea
ter, is Il member OF the staff of the New
York Times.
Lew Dockstader and A. C. MOreland
have both been reprimanded by secret
organizations for revealing certain secret
signs during the first part Of DOckstader's
minstrel entertainment.
The amateur dramatic company of
PelOuse City, Washington Territory, broke
up in Il fight with guns and knives because
it cOuld not be decided which one of three
men should play MacJoh.
Some of the salaries in the American
Opera Company are as follows: Theodore
Thomas, 81, 900 per week; Manager Locke,
$500 per week; NJ. M. Whitney, 5000 per
week, and Candidus, S., 600 per month.
dollars and Dimes" the English COM
edy by Mr.. BOwSer, was an exceedingly
.lugubriOus affair. The owner advertised
for a new name, and among others ''DolorS
and dumps was suggested. 1t is in every
way appropriate.
Since April IL, Henry f. Abbey has
travelled more than fifty thousand miles.
He has been across the North Atlantic
four times, to and from New York to Liv-
Liverpool twice, and from bordeaux to
Buenos Ayrcs and return. He has also
been across the continent three times and
to Mexico.
Margaret Mather, the only Juliet, has
married her orchestra leader, after the
manner of Lillian Russell, and the next
we hear of her she will probably be singing
in IN Operetta composed especially for her
by her Appollo-like hubby.-NeW York
World.
1t is reported that Nate Salisbury may
remain in Europe instead of returning TO
this county next season 10 travel with the
TrOubadOurs. He will not make up his
mind until he sees how the Wild West
strikes the fancy of the people across the
herring pond.
During Fanny DavenpOrt's recent en-
gagemen at the Chattanooga Tenn Opera
House, Manager Albert was presented by
the dramatic critics of that city with u
handsome gold headed cane. The presen-
tatiOn was made during an interlude in
one of the performances.